Call #3 - "This is an important call regarding you overdue payment to the IRS..."

Call #4 - "Can I speak to James Smith regarding his Mastercard and VISA accounts..."

And as I type this guess who just called? It was the FemmeBot Sarah. And she was calling about my credit card service. I hit #1 and was connected with a middle-eastern sounding male. When I asked the caller as to what country he was calling from, he hung up.

I would like to invent a small snake-like lasso that could weave and wind itself through the wires, and strangle the callers of the ever increasing spams.

Monday, February 26, 2018

I’ve received several questions regarding the AD 1,525 number above. That is the number of days that I have been pedaling on my Schwinn Fitness cycles since December 2, 2012. Not every day of the week but a good consistent number of days. Calculating I believe I am averaging 21.37 miles every day.

And I have now completed 46.39% of the distance to my next destination and goal point on the surface of the Red Planet.

Something different –

As some of you may know I have always been a fan of languages. I do speak three: English, French, and Spanish. My mother-tongue is English. I spent the 1st 8 years growing up in Spanish countries. My family then moved to Quebec in Canada.

So, I have decided to supplement my Spanish, especially as I do live in Tampa. Further I have decided to learn Mandarin Chinese. Why? Why not.

We have come up with our design for a redo of the original base quilting for our quilt CQ.

Question - If we made a quilt a number of years ago, and then decided that we did not like the quilting, the top is fine, and then we decide to take out the quilting and redo and design a new quilting pattern, what would the date of completion?

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Today is a historic day for Jim’s Trek. All time history for Pageviews now records over 190,000 –

Two days ago and yesterday I pedaled 42.0 miles on my Schwinn 170; 21.0 miles yesterday amd 21.0 miles this morning. https://www.schwinnfitness.com/ My totals are now 32,565.3 miles; 52,408.9 kilometers.

I have now completed 43.72% of the distance to my next destination point and goal.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

And I have completed 38.48% of the 850-mile leg on the surface of the Red Planet.

Soapbox –

As a continuation of my discussion yesterday concerning what is posted on Social Media, it appears that several persons, who either lack the grey-matter between their two ears, or a just dense and stupid. They have been posting that a couple of the students from Parkland, who are speaking out, are actors.

They have gone to the extreme of using not credible information of cut-and-paste photos of the students or doppelgangers to pages of yearbooks.

This is what I was stating yesterday. It is incredible. Let alone, there are those persons who are continuing to link the “false” information to their Social Media postings.

Don’t these persons consider the ability to check for correct sources and details.

“One of those voting against it was the Tampa area’s Rep. Shawn Harrison, whose aide Benjamin Kelly told the Tampa Bay Times that Hogg and Gonzalez were actors.Kelly was later fired, and Harrison said he was “appalled” by the comments.”

7 years ago, this was one of Andy’s and my first step into quilting. It was 1 of the 2 quilt kits that we ever attempted. We called it “CQ”, (CQ Country Quilt). Our quilting was non-existent, or should I say sad. CQ has stayed in the cupboard for years.

While waiting for some new Crane fabric, we’ve taken the old CQ apart and decided to re-design and create our own quilting design. Already working on pinning the quilt sandwich.

There is, of late, news on all sorts of media regarding the Russian cyber-hacking of the US elections. I listened to an NPR interview regarding the elements of cyber-security relating to voting and ballot control.

Currently, that of the telecommunications revolution, it is prudent of organizations, political, government, corporate, and, private to ensure that their systems security is “well-guarded” as is possible. All the latest and greatest security features should be in place.

But one thing that I believe that was not addressed in the talk and interviews as the host and participants were presenting, was the issue(s) of social media and psychological, albeit, warfare.

Could it be a consideration that the cyber-hacking and psychological combat may have been based on hackers using and flooding social media with “fear-tactics” and “lies” regarding the election and the candidates.

Would it not be of a logical possibility that when one speaks at such a low level of vocabulary use and comprehension, s/he would more than likely “speak”, at a base level, that would appeal to a lesser educated following and/or “electoral populace”? Or putting it another way, could the telecommunications revolution have allowed for a “slick” and “devious” psychological bullying and fear-mongering?

We’ve decided to redo one of the first quilts that we had done. We’re simply astounded at how far we have come since that time. The top is fine but the quilting design we be doing a completely new redo.

Monday, February 19, 2018

We’re on the cusp of Spring and summer here in Tampa. And of course, the orchids a continuing to bloom.

This morning I cycled my Schwinn 170 25.1 miles. And I felt fine. I figured out what I had done, excluding my Biorhythm Physical Cycle, to feel like I was in a daze, or something to that extent after I had pedaled for my set 1 hour.

It appears that earlier this week, when I was disturbing my weekly stash of meds, I had inadvertently placed one of my nighttime tabs incorrectly in with my morning meds. Makes on hell of a lot of sense, and why I was feeling “like out of it”. All fixed.

My totals now are 32,474.9 miles; 52,263.4 kilometers.

And I have completed 32.79% of the distance to my next goal point and destination.

“You have to let past failures go. Everyone who’s ever lived has experienced failure, especially the greats. Your work is just your work, it’s not all that you are—it does not encompass all that makes you an incredible and dynamic human being.”

“Young people are still being taught how to become exam-passing machines, rather than develop their ingenuity. They specialise early and see art and science as binary educational and career choices. They see educational success as a consumer might view a must-have new product on the market. They appreciate the cost of something, but not necessarily its value. It’s not their fault, it’s ours, the generations that have come before them.”

The current Administration, nationally, as well as Ms. DeVos, should take note. Period.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Today I pedaled my Schwinn 170 25.4 miles. Totals now rack up at 32,350.6 miles; 52,063.3 kilometers. Only 5,876.4 miles to go.

And I have completed 18.17% through the red dust to my next goal point.

I then checked and watered the orchids. I am always amazed at the colors and the fragile strength of each blossom.

We started cleaning the front yard. Got to go slow because there are no full moons in February, but we will be hit with 2 in March. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac it looks like there may not be another freeze. Here’s hoping.

“That doesn't mean an eruption is imminent, but that the volcanic system that underpins the caldera has been changing and evolving over the millennia, the researchers reported. It's interesting to see that the lava dome apparently originates from a different part of the magmatic system (underground chambers of molten rock) than the last super-eruption's lavas, Klemetti said.”

#45 could set up and convene an international Asian detente with countries of the area to provide the "rock" for his "huge wall".

“…Rockwell has moved onto a trend that isn't all over shelves quite yet, but is catching steam: patchwork quilts. Yes, as in the blanket on the spare bedroom at your grandma's house. Yep: the quilt is fashion now.”